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BPHs that assume they can set the terms for author success are on a long slow downward slide as many talented authors decide that they'd be better off doing things differently. Whether that's "sign with an indie press with more flexible terms and more author control over covers, descriptions, and sales venues" or "publish solo with hired editors" or even "publish solo with no editors for $1, and capitalize on the cheap-impulse market," Penguin (and other BPHs) are going to lose a lot of great authors by not being more flexible in their contract terms.
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Authors have bitched about publishers probably since there have been authors and publishers. What's new is that authors now do that bitching on Internet.
Publishers have their own list of grievances against authors, but they don't ( and shouldn't) do it on the Internet (They have to be the adult in the relationship).
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The acknowledgments pages of books are an efficiency expert’s nightmare; authors routinely thank editors and publishers for granting an extra year to complete a manuscript, for taking late-night phone calls, for the loan of a summer house. These kinds of gestures are unlikely to be welcomed in cultures built around engineering efficiencies.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...#ixzz1smZDnPej
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